Consecutive-order-impaling pin



F. T. LOFTIN.

CONSECUTIVE ORDER IMPALING PIN.

APPLICATION man MAY 24, 1920.

1,420,717, Patented June 2 7, 1922.

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FREDERICK T. LOFTIN, OF INDIANAPCLI S, INDIANA.

CONSECUTIVE-ORDEit-IMPALING' rm.

To all'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, F REDERIOK T. LOFTIN, a .citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, have invented a new and useful Consecutive- Order-Impalin'g Pin, of which the following is a specification. I

This invention relates to impaling pins, and the object is to provide a file rod arranged to 'be detachably supported in such manner that several pieces of paper or similar substances capable of holding printed or written characters, memoranda, etc., may be placed "upon said file rod at one end thereof and may be readily removed therefrom at the other end in the same order in which they were placed upon it.

This object is attained by means of the mechanism described in the accompanying specifications and drawings.

The full nature of the invention will be understood from the accompanying drawings and the following description and claims.

In the drawings, Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the impaling pin in an operative position. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same in position to receive papers. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the same showing it in position for removing the papers filed thereon. I I

In the drawings there is shown a file rod 10 curved at its lower section in such manner that it may rest in and upon a bracket comprising an oval-shaped loop 11 formed from a strip of sheet metal or Wire. This temporary receptacle is integral with and an extension of the rigid supporting horizontal bracket arm 12. The file rod 10 is held in an upright position by the horizontal supporting arm 13 which is bent at its extremity into a hook 14 encircling the file rod 10. The horizontal supporting arm 13 is parallel with the bracket arm 12 and extends at right angles with the file rod 10 in the same vertical plane as the arm 12. The arms 12 and 13 are connected by the supporting rod 15 which may be formed integral therewith, and is spaced from the file rod 10 and substantially parallel thereto. Thus the file rod is detachably supported in position for the placing of papers thereon and removal therefrom without the necessity of having formed depressions on said file rod for the better holding of the same in position and avoiding the necessity of Specification of Letters Patent;

Application filed May 24, I526. serial no. 383,793. I

Patented J unei 27 1922."

clamps at the extremities of said supporting arms 12 and 13.

'The supporting arms 12 and Band the supporting rod '15 are most conveniently and economically made from one piece of metal, preferably a strip of sheet metal or Wire, so bent that the arms12 and 1,3 are at right angles with ,the supporting rod 15. This strip of metal or wire should be of sufiicient size and stiffness to prevent the. supporting arms from bending under an ordinary weight or papers or other memoranda impaled upon the file rod 10. The supporting rod 15 may belocked at 16 to provide'a seat for an attaching screw or nail, whereby the file may be secured to a plate or support 17 Forsecuring the file at its lower end, a staple 18 may be used, as shown. I

The device is operated as follows; Papers or other substances which it is desired to have filed temporarily and to be able to Withdraw consecutively ,in the order filed are impaled upon the pointed top of file rod 10, usually through their margin. These papers, etc., are passed down this file rod by temporarily removing it from the hook 14, as shown in Fig; 2. This enables the operator to push the papers on down the file rod past the point where said file rod is detachably supported by its upper support. The papers are then pushed further down said file rod by slightly lifting the file rod from its lower support 11, so as to be suspended under said lower support.

For removal, the file rod is elevated out of the loop i 11, as shown in Fig. 3, and the impaled papers may thus be readily removed in the order in which they were impaled.

The invention claimed is:

1. An impaling pin comprising a file rod having a U-shaped curve on the lower end thereof, a support for said file rod, means for securing said support in supporting position, and a laterally projecting arm for detachably securing said impaling pin in having a U-shaped curve on the lower end thereof, a support for said file rod, means for securing said support in supporting position, a laterally projecting arm having a. loop in which the U-shaped portion of said pin is" adapted to be removably seated a second laterally projecting arm in spaced relation thereto and having a hook on the end thereof for detachably hooking said pin and maintaining it in substantially vertical 10 position in spaced relation with said supo rt. p Indianapolis, Ind, May 22, 1920. 5 FRED T. LOFTIN. 

